Presentation on NER VISION 2020

FOR TELECOMBefore 59th NEC Plenary, 28.9.2010

State wise Future Plan with Monitorable Targets

By-AJAY BHATTACHARYA, ADMINISTRATOR , USOF

Future Telecom Plan For Assam

Dec.10 June, 11 Dec.11 June, 12 Dec.,12

1 Total Conn. Lakhs _ 73.5 90.04 99.20* 105.14 118.24 130.34 140.44 157.54

2 Teledensity % _ 24.47 30.18 32.72 * 33.72 38.26 42.88 47.34 54.88

3 Area Coverage Sq Km 78436 35288 40000 35543 43000 46000 53000 61000 70000

4 Vill. Covered Nos 25124 17070 19009.00 23998 20182 21035 22000 23000 24000

5 Pop. covered Lakhs 266.55 206 213 206.50 217 221 226 232 240

6 VPTs Nos _ 23687 23863 23998 24023 25124 - - -

7 Brodband con. Nos _ 37329 54667 43009 71667 87667 107667 127667 149300

8 OFC Rkms _ 5416.74 5616.74 5429.49 5886.74 6166.74 6516.74 7016.74 7516.74

9 DHQ Nos 26 26 - - - - - - -

10 BHQ Nos 223 216 220 216 223 - - - -

11 Nat. Highways Kms 2816 2545 2600 2545 2700 2816

12 State Highways

Kms 21021593

1650 15931750 1850 2102

Future Targets

* Provisional

Achiv.up to June-

2010 S. No Parameters Total Target up to

June 2010Unit

Status as on 30th

September, 2009

Future Telecom Plan for Meghalaya

Dec.10 June, 11 Dec.11 June, 12 Dec.,12

1 Total Conn. Lakhs _ 10.09 11.1 13.03* 12.5 14.1 15.9 17.1 18.7

2 Teledensity % _ 39.16 44.5 50.13* 49.9 56.1 61.2 67.3 75.16

3 Area Coverage Sq Km 22429 7017 8300 7409 9500 11000 13000 16000 20000

4 Vill. Covered Nos 5782 392 700.00 509 1700 3500 4000 4600 5400

5 Pop. covered Lakhs 23.19 8.04 9.98 8.47 10.98 13.13 15.63 18 21.5

6 VPTs Nos _ 3084 4706 3445 5306 5782 - - -

7 Brodband con. Nos _ 4092 6491 4943 8491 10491 12491 14400 16800

8 OFC Rkms _ 735.23 823.17 705.23 865.2 915.2 965.2 1023 1095

9 DHQ Nos 7 7 _ -

10 BHQ Nos 39 29 39 32 - - - - -

11 Nat. Highways Kms 810 236 810 246 600 810 -

Future targets

*Provisional

Achiv.up to June-

2010 S. No Parameters Total

Target up to June

2010Unit

Status as on 30th Sept.,

2009

Future Telecom Plan For Mizoram

Dec.10 June, 11 Dec.11 June, 12 Dec.,12

1 Total Conn. Lakhs _ 4.49 5.39 5.44* 5.89 6.39 6.89 7.39 7.89

2 Teledensity % _ 45.53 53.54 54.66* 59.2 64.3 69.23 74.54 79.12

3 Area Coverage Sq Km 21087 3953 5400 4093 6500 8000 11000 14500 19000

4 Vill. Covered Nos 707 120 250.00 125 400 600 650 707 -

5 Pop. covered Lakhs 8.91 4.36 5.5 4.41 6.5 7 7.5 8 8.91

6 VPTs Nos _ 692 707 704 - - - - -

7 Brodband con. Nos _ 2504 3774 3319 5274 7274 9774 11774 14000

8 OFC Rkms _ 502.59 625.19 578.59 700.19 775.19 850.19 925.19 1000

9 DHQ Nos 8 8 _ - - - - - -

10 BHQ Nos 22 17 22 19 - - - - -

11 Nat. Highways Kms 927 224 450 234 690 927

12 State Highways Kms 440 150 200 170250 315 440

FUTURE TARGETS

*Provisional

Achiv. up to June-2010

S. No Parameters Total

Target up to June, 2010

Unit

Status as on 30th Sept., 2009

Future Telecom Plan For Tripura

Dec.10 June, 11 Dec.11 June, 12 Dec.,12

1 Total Conn. Lakhs _ 8.31 10.02 10.65* 12.16 14.3 16.44 18.98 22.12

2 Teledensity % _ 23.39 28.44 29.69* 32.45 37.5 41.6 47 53.44

3 Area Coverage Sq Km 10492 6756 8400 7644 9000 9500 10000 10492 -

4 Vill. Covered Nos 858 176 400.00 228 600 800 858 - -

5 Pop. covered Lakhs 31.92 8.38 11 10.69 14 18 22 26 30

6 VPTs Nos _ 804 858 858 - - - - -

7 Brodband con. Nos _ 4973 6795 5767 8795 11295 14295 17295 20295

8 OFC Rkms _ 1097.7 1179.72 1205.85 1255 1330 1405 1480 1555

9 DHQ Nos 4 4 _ - - - - - -

10 BHQ Nos 40 40 _ - - - - - -

11 Nat. Highways Kms 400 200 255 213 315 400- -

FUTURE TARGETS

*Provisional

Achiv.up to June-

2010 S. No Parameters Total

Target upto June 2010

Unit

Status as on 30th

Sept., 2009

Future Telecom Plan For Arunachal Pradesh

Dec.10 June, 11 Dec.11 June, 12 Dec.,12

1 Total Conn. Lakhs _ 3.52 3.76 4.58* 4.01 4.44 5.07 5.72 6.25

2 Teledensity % _ 28.87 30.87 37.20* 32.95 36.5 41.6 47 55.69

3 Area Coverage Sq Km 83743 4920 8000 6852 15000 19000 24000 35000 50000

4 Vill. Covered Nos 3863 577 902.00 1679 1127 1409 2009 2600 3400

5 Pop. covered Lakhs 11.00 4.23 5.12 4.55 5.64 6.2 7.2 8.2 10

6 VPTs Nos _ 1440 2171 1679 2971 3863 - - -

7 Brodband con. Nos _ 3102 4000 3964 5000 6500 8000 9900 12200

8 OFC Rkms _ 1554.85 1650.15 1755.73 1750 1850 1950 2050 2150

9 DHQ Nos 16 16 _ 16 - - - - -

10 BHQ Nos 84 46 55 57 84 - - - -

11 Nat. Highways Kms 392 145 217 195 330 392

12 State Highways Kms 1232 445 612 525 889 1077 1232

FUTURE TARGETS

*Provisional

Achiv.up to June-

2010S. No Parameters Total Target upto

June 2010Unit

Status as on 30th

September, 2009

Future Telecom Plan For Manipur

Dec.10 June, 11 Dec.11 June, 12 Dec.,12

1 Total Conn. Lakhs _ 8.75 9.37 11.73* 10.57 11.58 13.29 15 17

2 Teledensity % _ 36.32 38.9 48.30* 43.9 48.1 55.2 62.3 70.6

3 Area Coverage Sq Km 22357 4655 6689 7010 8027 9632 12000 16000 20000

4 Vill. Covered Nos 2315 1645 1779.00 2081 1850 1924 1975 2025 2199

5 Pop. covered Lakhs 22.87 8.18 9.91 8.82 10.9 11.99 13 16 20

6 VPTs Nos _ 1890 2226 2081 2301 2315 - - -

7 Brodband con. Nos _ 2652 3500 3606 4600 5700 6900 8500 10500

8 OFC Rkms _ 1133.74 1233.74 1141.4 1384 1584 1834 2134 2484

9 DHQ Nos 9 9 _ 9 - - - -

10 BHQ Nos 34 25 29 25 34 - - - -

11 Nat. Highways Kms 959 417 580 485 751 959

12 State Highways Kms 668 208 310 280 415 516 668

FUTURE TARGETS

*Provisional

Achiv.up to June-

2010

Target upto June

2010S. No Parameters Total Unit

Status as on 30th

September, 2009

Future Telecom Plan For Nagaland

Dec.10 June, 11 Dec.11 June, 12 Dec.,12

1 Total Conn. Lakhs _ 6.11 6.8 8.26* 7.48 8.3 9.43 10.61 12.48

2 Teledensity % _ 27.64 30.77 37.06* 33.85 37.6 42.7 48.01 56.49

3 Area Coverage Sq Km 16529 5570 7625 6754 8921 10438 11500 12500 15000

4 Vill. Covered Nos 1278 788 869.00 1261 912 958 1020 1115 1125

5 Pop. covered Lakhs 19.89 9.44 11.43 11.82 12.58 13.84 15.25 17.5 19

6 VPTs Nos _ 1211 1278 1261 - - -- - -

7 Brodband con. Nos _ 3114 4000 4647 4600 6300 8300 10100 12000

8 OFC Rkms _ 1910.75 2179 1911.00 2379 2579 2779 2979 3179

9 DHQ Nos 11 11 _ 11 - - - - -

10 BHQ Nos 52 35 42 36 52 - - - -

11 Nat. Highways Kms 494 460 465 465 473 485 -

12 State Highways Kms 1094696

745 735797 912 1094

FUTURE TARGETS

*Provisional

Achiv.up to June-

2010 S. No Parameters Total

Target upto June 2010

Unit

Status as on 30th

September, 2009

Future Telecom Plan For Sikkim

Dec.10 June, 11 Dec.11 June, 12

1 Total Conn. Lakhs _ 1.25 1.36 2.34* 1.55 1.83 2.2 2.82

2 Teledensity % _ 20.81 22.77 38.55* 25.85 30.6 36.7 47.01

3 Area Coverage Sq Km 7096 2055 2400 3900 2900 3500 4200 5000

4 Vill. Covered Nos 450 276 315.00 410 340 350 370 400

5 Pop. covered Lakhs 5.40 2.3 2.41 4.25 2.56 2.66 3.25 4

6 VPTs Nos _ 384 450 447 - - -- -

7 Brodband con. Nos _ 2293 3500 3353 4400 5400 6500 7700

8 OFC Rkms _ 728.64 803.35 774.85 855.35 955.35 1005.4 1055.4

9 DHQ Nos 4 4 4 covered - - -- -

10 BHQ Nos 26 26 - - - - - -

11 Nat. Highways Kms 92 52 60 60 92 - -

12 State Highways Kms 165 157 165 157 - - -

FUTURE TARGETS

*Provisional

Achiv.up to June-

2010 S. No Parameters Total

Target upto June

2010Unit

Status as on 30th

September, 2009

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Ongoing USO Fund Activities

Provision of VPTs in uncovered villages

• VPT is the first public telephone installed in a village provided on any technology

• For the VPTs existing as on March 2003, only the OPEX and Revenue has been taken into account for determining the Net Cost

• Subsidy support for installation of VPTs in the Remaining Uncovered Villages being provided under two Schemes

– Bharat Nirman• Covering villages with Population more than 100 but excluding Villages affected with Naxalite

problem

– New VPTs• Covering all left out inhabited villages irrespective of Population or Naxalite criteria

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• Out of the total 40377 inhabited villages in North Eastern Region, 34477 villages have been provided with Village Public Telephones (VPTs) as on 31.07.2010.

• This includes the VPTs provided under Bharat Nirman Program and New VPT Agreements signed with BSNL to provide VPTs in all the remaining uncovered inhabited villages as per Census 2001.

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Sl. No. State Total No. of Villages

as per Census

2001

No. of inhabited

villages as per Census

2001

No. of villages covered

with VPTs

VPTs provided on DSPT under Bharat Nirman

Programme

1 Assam 26312 25124 24012 02 Meghalaya 6027 5782 3466 8033 Mizoram 817 707 704 434 Tripura 870 858 858 05 Manipur 2391 2315 2081 3146 Arunachal

Pradesh4065 3863 1681 341

7 Nagaland 1317 1278 1261 18 Sikkim 452 450 414 0  Total 42251 40377 34477 1502

State Wise VPT Status in Inhibited Villages

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First phase of Shared Mobile Infrastructure Scheme :

• A scheme has been launched by USO Fund to provide subsidy support for setting up and managing infrastructure sites (towers) spread over various districts of the country including North Eastern states for provision of mobile services in the specified rural and remote areas, where there is no existing fixed wireless or mobile coverage.

• The infrastructure so created shall be shared by three service providers for provision of mobile services.

• Villages/clusters of villages with more than 2000 population are being covered

• As on 31.07.2010, 459 towers have been set up in NE Region. Mobile services through these shared towers are also being made operational in a phased manner. The remaining towers are likely to be set up by Nov’2010 in case the strike of Transport Operators specifically in Manipur is called of timely.

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Status of Commissioning of Mobile Towers:

Sl. No. State Name of IP

No. of towers to be

commissioned

No. of towers commissioned as

on 31.07.2010

Remaining sites

1Arunachal Pradesh

BSNL 68 43 25

2 Assam RCIL 87 85 23 Manipur BSNL 103 46 574 Meghalaya KEC 108 108 05 Mizoram KEC 38 37 17 Nagaland BSNL 59 35 246 Sikkim VESL 6 6 08 Tripura BSNL 116 99 17  Total   585 459 126

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Wire line Broadband Connectivity for Rural areas

• USO Fund has launched a scheme on 20.01.2009 to provide wire-line broadband connectivity to rural & remote areas by leveraging the existing rural exchanges infrastructure and copper wire-line network.

• The objective is to make the rural and remote areas broadband enabled by facilitating the service providers for creating Broadband infrastructure.

• The speed of each of the broadband connections shall be at least 512 Kbps Always On, with the capability to deliver data, voice and video services in the fixed mode.

• The rural broadband connectivity will cover institutional users, such as Common Service Centers (CSCs), being set up by DIT, Gram Panchayats, Higher Secondary Schools and Public Health Centres, as well as Individual Users located in the villages.

BSNL• BSNL Organization in NE Region consists of BSNL Organization in NE Region consists of • Assam Telecom Circle: Assam Telecom Circle:

NE-I Circle comprising of state of Meghalaya, Mizoram & TripuraNE-I Circle comprising of state of Meghalaya, Mizoram & Tripura NE-II Circle comprising of state of Nagaland, Manipur & NE-II Circle comprising of state of Nagaland, Manipur &

Arunachal PradeshArunachal Pradesh

• Sikkim which is part of West Bengal Telecom CircleSikkim which is part of West Bengal Telecom Circle

• Project Circle: North East Task Force (NETF); Project Circle: North East Task Force (NETF);

• Maintenance Unit for Long Distance Network: Eastern Maintenance Unit for Long Distance Network: Eastern Telecom Region (ETR)Telecom Region (ETR)

BSNL’s Targets and Achievements in NE Region for Last 3 Years

Target Achv. Target Achv. Target Achv.

1 Switching Capacity lines5,61,500 5,43,911 5,66,036 4,37,396 6,16,254 358278

2Telephone connection Nos 9,90,015 3,80,616 5,17,300 43,982 6,26,000 419859

3 Broadband Capacity ports 0 48,315 33,064 66,900 41,105 29624

4Broadband connections Nos 74,000 17,406 45,796 29,399 32,255 22301

5 Internet connections Nos 43,000 1,78,551 13,090 2,950 11,375 82738

6 VPT Nos 2,761 -1,575 2,605 1,402 4,877 2313

7 TAX ccts 17,000 21,000 29,000 6,000 88,000 0

8 OFC Rkms 1,250 1,366 1,340 2,361 1,395 1224

S. No Details Unit 2009-102007-08 2008-09

BSNL’s Physical Performance

Unit 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10

Net Telephone Conn.

Lakhs 95.64 76.18 91.52 157.90Broadband Conn. Lakhs 3.91 10.55 15.25 29.88

Internet Conn. Lakhs 7.97 2.42 1.65 1.34OF Cable RKms 27,100 43,832 44,265 48,622

Parameter Net Addition

BSNL’s Tele-density in NER as on 31.07-2010

B S NL

U r ban

B S NL

R ur al

B S NL

T ot al

A LL

Oper a

t or s

% B S NL

c o n t.

A s s am 22. 20 1. 95 4. 95 33. 3 14. 86Meghalaya 21.67 3.06 6.92Mizor am 20.20 10.37 15.55T r ipur a 36.59 4.90 10.83NE - 1 26. 97 4. 68 10. 08Ar unachal P r adesh52.85 11.96 23.47Manipur 17.13 4.00 7.51Nagaland 45.43 6.01 13.03NE -2 34. 08 6. 38 12. 93Sikkim 81.83 10.00 19.04NE Region 26. 01 3. 03 7. 05 37. 5 19. 05A l l I ndi a 20. 43 4. 34 8. 78 58. 2 14. 59

Name of State

47.29 24.03

T el edens i ty (%)

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Various issues affecting Telecom development in NE Region“ENTRY TAX ISSUE”

•Assam State Govt. levying Entry Tax @ 4% for all Telecom & IT goods entering Assam for use in Assam, although no Telecom and IT related equipment is manufactured in the State

• Authorities also demanding Certificates for goods entering Assam destined for the other 6 States of the NE region that “these goods would not be unloaded and used in Assam”

•Problem faced by BSNL while sending telecom parts for repair out of the State of Assam, the Entry Tax Authority have to be chased to issue Certificates that the Entry Tax for the element in question has already been paid

•Recommendation : There should be at least a 5-year Entry Tax holiday for Telecom & IT related goods entering Assam. This is essential for the development of the State’s Telecom & IT infrastructure.

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Various issues affecting Telecom development in NE Region“RIGHT OF WAY PERMISSION FOR OFC LAYING”

• For any cable / OFC laying, Right of Way (ROW) permission is required from the concerned Civic Authority (Municipality, Panchayat etc.).

• Thus, a cable laying project spanning across several Civic areas require issue of multiple ROW permissions. If for any section, the permission is not granted for any section, the whole project collapses. Every Authority has its own procedures & tariff structure.

• Recommendation : The present system of getting right of way a permission should be abolished throughout the Country (in some developed States it is already done), as better Telecom is essential for the all-round development of the State’s economy including opening up of employment generation opportunity.

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Various issues affecting Telecom development in NE Region“NON COMPENSATION FOR CABLE / OFC CUTS”

• Due to infrastructure development activities on the roads (including Road widening), the Telecom cables & OFC are being frequently cut

• Agencies such as – NHAI, State PWD & the State PHE Departments, do not pay any compensation, which causes tremendous loss to Telecom operators.

• This trend has only increased with usage of heavy earth moving machinery

• Recommendation : The Agency / Department undertaking works on the road must pay compensation equal to the capital cost of the cable / OFC already existing along the stretch of road which would be subjected to the road works activities (lesser than 1% of Project Cost)

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Various issues affecting Telecom development in NE Region“PENALTY FOR RUNNING DG SET”

• Assam State Govt. Tax Commissioner has recently issued notice for collection of electricity duty for the electricity generated by the running of the DG sets quoting provision in the Assam Electricity Act, 1964, which stipulates penalty of Rs 0.10Paisa/unit penalty if Power taken from any source other than State Electricity Board

• Already the Government Departments as well as Railways stand exempted in Assam

• BSNL yet not exempted

• Recommendation :For all services covered under the ESMA Act, the Electricity duty payment on a/c of electricity generated by running DG sets, should be exempted.

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Other Reasons affecting Telecom development in NE Region

• In Meghalaya some sites are located on Bangladesh Border and this limits the progress of work at these sites.

• In Mizoram because of difficult terrain and huge distances (on average 2 to 5 Km with head loading of tower parts) have greatly hampered the progress.

• Insurgency and poor law & order situation in the NE states of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Nagaland. Also, the terrains of these states are very difficult.

• In hilly areas, connecting of some sites to GSM core network is also very difficult task and needs extra efforts as well as extra time frame. Some sites planned to connect through VSAT but presently due to satellite bandwidth crunch, sites could not be commissioned.

• The sites are in most remote areas of rural India, mostly not connected by roads, public transport. Some sites are remotest part of country where even the roads are not properly connected and even due to slightest of rains the material is not able to reach to the site.

Many of the areas are disturbed, forest areas, hilly terrain, snow bound with no transport etc.

Active monsoon in NE region also delayed the work.

Revenue records of the land in many of the villages are incomplete and inconsistent resulting in delay in acquiring of land and signing of lease deeds.

Some of the sites are falling in forest land/ tribal land as a result, land acquisition pace was slow.

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Other Reasons affecting Telecom development in NE Region..

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